Github user ChengXiangLi commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/1477#discussion_r49161249
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flink-staging/flink-table/src/main/scala/org/apache/flink/api/table/Table.scala
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@@ -267,5 +271,24 @@ case class Table(private[flink] val operation:
PlanNode) {
this.copy(operation = UnionAll(operation, right.operation))
}
+ /**
+ * Get the process of the sql parsing, print AST and physical execution
plan.The AST
+ * show the structure of the supplied statement. The execution plan
shows how the table
+ * referenced by the statement will be scanned.
+ */
+ def explain(extended: Boolean): String = {
+ val ast = operation
+ val dataSet = this.toDataSet[Row]
+ val env = dataSet.getExecutionEnvironment
+ dataSet.output(new DiscardingOutputFormat[Row])
+ val string = env.getExecutionPlan()
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It's better to use some meaningful variable name here.
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